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Cross-modal matching is a procedure which has been used with humans and non-human primates to study the relationship between their haptic (active touch) and visual senses (see reviews in Jones, 1981; Savage-Rumbaugh et al., 1988). In this procedure, a subject first examines an object using either the haptic or the visual sense exclusively, and then must select that same object using the alternate sense. Humans (Rose et al., 1982; Bushneil and Weinberger, 1987) and non-human primates (Davenport and Rogers, 1970) both perform accurately in this task, and are able to match novel objects or familiar ones, although the latter are somewhat easier. These results give support to theories of “sensory unity” (Marks, 1978) — the central integration, rather than independence, of the haptic and visual systems.
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Herman, L.M., Pack, A.A. (1992). Echoic-Visual Cross-Modal Recognition by a Dolphin. In: Thomas, J.A., Kastelein, R.A., Supin, A.Y. (eds) Marine Mammal Sensory Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3406-8_44
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